Maybe there’s context I’m missing here - my only context is as a (reluctant) user of JWT, but I don’t see how the opening claim is substantiated:

> But I can’t help seeing a whole little industry creep up that is interested in creating alternative building blocks that appear to be of interest to the creators so they can attain control over them and perform rent seeking from that control.

So someone wrote an article that was negative on JOSE/JWT, and is now starting a company, which seems to have little to do with PASETO or JWT. So what? Where is the rent seeking?

Maybe I’m missing the bigger picture, as is sometimes the case when a post intended for an audience who are members of a mailing list shows up here without more context. But as it is it just reads like a jealous rant.